The following is a summary of the December 2025 issue of The St. Croix Review:
Barry MacDonald, in “Rampant Fraud and Betrayal in Minnesota,” exposes state government corruption and massive criminal organization in the Somali community while Tim Walz has been governor of Minnesota.
Josiah Lippincott, in “Stop Giving Liberals Our Tax Money,” offers a thought experiment and details the results: Eliminate the federal Department of Education.
John Carter, in “DEI, the Dispossessed Generation, and the Digital Koryos,” writes about the blatant discrimination against young white men and the societal devastation it has wrought. He sketches the broad outline of a counterrevolution.
Michael S. Swisher, in “Culture and the Right,” sheds light on what “culture” is. He demonstrates that American culture today is totalitarian. He suggests that we should be aware of the influence of cultural cues, and that we should make an effort to refine ourselves. We should also defund public institutions that are enemies of Western culture.
Mark Hendrickson, in “Demonizing and Prosecuting Fossil Fuels Companies: Misguided and Pernicious,” provides a formidable list of scientific facts that casts doubt on climate alarmism, and he cites convincing evidence for why fossil fuels are a blessing for humankind; in “Envy: The Corrosive Moral Rot at the Heart of Socialism,” he asserts that those who succeed economically by the invention of goods and services that millions of people enjoy are justly rewarded with wealth because they have enriched all of us; in “$4,000 Gold: What Is Going On?” he suspects the fact that our national debt is growing faster than our annual gross domestic product has something to do with the increased worldwide demand for gold; in “A Fascinating World Series,” with a command of rich details, he shows why the 2025 World Series was tremendous.
Paul Kengor, in “Maximilian Kolbe’s Triumph at Auschwitz,” reviews a film about a Polish Catholic priest who sacrificed his life for the sake of a fellow prisoner at the infamous concentration camp.
Timothy S. Goeglein, in “The Legacy of Clarence Thomas,” praises the stalwart character and accomplishment of the Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court on the 34th anniversary of his nomination to the court.
Francis P. DeStefano, in “Ken Burns: Leonardo da Vinci,” questions the secularist tendency to drain religious sincerity from the art of previous centuries; in “Bogart and Bacall: Four Films,” he briefly reviews “To Have and Have Not,” “The Big Sleep,” “Dark Passage,” and “Key Largo,” which star both Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall.
Jigs Gardner, in “Letters from a Conservative Farmer — Speed the Plow,” writes about integrity, the love of craft, openness to the advancement of knowledge, and the ancient art of the plow.
